About this title: From 1625 to 1627 scholar-officials belonging to a militant Confucianist group known as the "Donglin Faction" suffered one of the most gruesome political repressions in China's history. Many were purged from key positions in the central government for their relentless push for a national moral rearmament under the Tianqi emperor. While their martyrs' deaths won them a lasting reputation for heroism and steadfastness, their opponents are remembered for fatally degrading the quality of Ming political life with their arrests and tortures of Donglin partisans. John Dardess employs a wide range of ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Date Published: 2002-03
ISBN-13:9780824825164ISBN:0824825160
Description: Good. Cover has some edge wear and corners curled and creased. Front cover curls along outer edge. Light soiling along the page edges. Pages have minimal marks and highlighting! ! FAST SHIPPING W/USPS TRACKING! ! ! read more
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu
Date Published: 2007
Description: Brand new. First published 2002. 207 pages with 2 maps. "Donglin" in seventeenth-century China stood for three different but partly overlapping things. It stood for an ethical revitalization movement; a national Confucian moral fellowship; and it also was the label of a Beijing political faction. in 1620 and 162, after the death of the Wanli emperor, it appeared that the movement had triumphed at last. But over the next several years its power was curtailed and from 1625 to 1627 the young ... read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN-13:9780824825164ISBN:0824825160
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